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Automobile Insurance

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SB 875 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Insurance premiums
Provides that an installment fee is not a premium.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1059 (Migden-D) Vehicle insurance: aftermarket parts
Prohibits an insurer from requiring the installation of an aftermarket part, as defined, on a vehicle if the part to be replaced is under an existing original manufacturer's warranty, and prohibits the insurer from limiting payment to the cost of an aftermarket part, up to a maximum of three years after the vehicle was sold as new.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1167 (Wiggins-D) Insurance: vehicle repair task force
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to convene a task force, as specified, to review issues arising from implementation of the automobile repair anti-steering statute, and to report its findings to the Legislature by 12/31/09.
Vetoed

SB 1371 (Correa-D) Insurance: automobile repair capping
Prohibits automobile insurers from capping offers and payments for paint and materials charges, and defines capping for that purpose.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2008

AB 1051 (Carter-D) Insurance: rates
Defines "unfairly discriminatory" as it relates to automobile insurance rates, and provides that when a rate is challenged in court, the court's ruling cannot be applied retroactively for purposes of regulation of automobile insurance.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

AB 1083 (Huffman-D) Automotive insurance: mileage-based incentives
Declares legislative intent to allow insurance providers to use vehicle usage as a factor in setting rates and premiums.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2139 (De La Torre-D) In-home supportive services: auto insurance
Prevents an auto liability insurance policy from excluding coverage for the purpose of using the vehicle to perform in-home supportive services.
Vetoed

AB 2688 (De La Torre-D) Assigned risk plan: motor vehicle operator reports
Authorizes automobile insurers to use the same reports to verify driving records of assigned risk policyholders that they use for voluntary market policyholders.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2008

AB 2800 (Huffman-D) Automobile insurance: rates
Allows insurers to apply a different rating factor for insurer-verified miles driven annually for purposes of automobile insurance rates.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 3057 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance: vehicles
Makes nonsubstantive changes to existing law by correcting two obsolete references to law governing the sale of automobile insurance.
Chapter 107, Statutes of 2008

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Health Insurance

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SB 25* (Maldonado-R) Health savings account: income tax
Conforms California law to federal law with respect to health savings accounts.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 32 (Steinberg-D) Health insurance coverage: children
Expands Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program (HFP) eligibility to cover all children with family incomes at or below 300% of the federal poverty level (FPL). Establishes a HFP Buy-In Program for children in families with family incomes above 300% FPL. Establishes various presumptive eligibility programs.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

A similar bill was AB 1 (Laird-D) which died at the Senate Desk.

SB 51 (Ducheny-D) San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project
Establishes a demonstration project to expand and subsidize employer-based health insurance in San Diego County. Establishes the San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project to assist employers in providing health care benefits to employees and to test one element (subsidized private employer insurance) of health care reform.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 151* (Denham-R) Health insurance: income tax credit
Authorizes a tax credit for qualified health expenses by a qualified employer for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/08 and before 1/1/13.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 199* (Harman-R) Health Savings Account
Beginning on or after 1/1/08 and before 1/1/14, provides a tax credit for amounts paid or incurred during the taxable year by a qualified taxpayer that provides qualified health insurance for its employees who perform a service in California.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 349 (Perata-D) Health care coverage: electronic billing
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide a paper copy of any bill directed to any subscriber, enrollee, policyholder, or certificate holder if the subscriber, enrollee, policyholder, or certificate holder does not consent to electronic billing.
Vetoed

SB 365 (McClintock-R) Health insurance: out-of-state carriers
Allows a health care service plan or health insurance carrier domiciled in another state to offer, sell, or renew a health care service plan or a health insurance policy in this state without holding a license issued by the Department of Managed Health Care or a certificate of authority issued by the Insurance Commissioner, and without meeting specified requirements for license or certificate, provided the carrier is authorized to issue a plan or policy in the domiciliary state and complies with that state's requirements.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SB 389 (Yee-D) Health care coverage: claims
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, on or before 3/1/08, to implement an independent provider dispute resolution system, in consultation with representatives of health plans or insurers, providers, and consumer representatives, prohibits a hospital-based physician, as defined, from seeking payment from individual enrollees for services he or she rendered. Requires that physician or group of physicians to seek reimbursement solely from the enrollee's health care service plan or the contracting risk-bearing organization. Requires a health care service plan that becomes aware that one of its enrollees has been billed in violation of these provisions to report that violation to the Department of Managed Health Care.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 766 (Alquist-D) Health insurance for high school students
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that requires the University of California, the California State University, and each community college district of the California Community Colleges to each provide, as part of their respective health care services programs, health insurance coverage for each full-time student of their respective segments who is not otherwise covered by a private health insurance plan or by publicly financed health care coverage. Provides that, pursuant to existing law, the bill applies to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make it applicable.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 820* (Ashburn-R) Cafeteria plans: income tax credit
Provides an income tax credit taken against personal and corporate income taxes, equal to 15% of the costs related to establishing cafeteria plans authorized under the Internal Revenue Code, that provide health benefits to employees.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 840 (Kuehl-D) Single-payer health care coverage
Creates the California Healthcare System, a single-payer health care system administered by the California Healthcare Agency, to provide health insurance coverage to all California residents. States that the System will become operative when the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency determines the Healthcare Fund has sufficient revenues to implement this bill.
Vetoed

SB 972 (McClintock-R) Health insurance
Establishes a regulatory structure to license new multiple employer welfare arrangements.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

SB 973 (Simitian-D) California Health Benefits Service Program
Establishes, within the Department of Health Care Services, the California Health Benefits Service Program to authorize and facilitate the creation of joint ventures among public health coverage programs, including existing publicly operated Medi-Cal managed care plans and the County Medical Services Program, which could provide health coverage to uninsured persons and health insurance purchasers, including individuals, employers and other health plan sponsors.
Vetoed

SB 981 (Perata-D) Health care coverage: non-contracting hospital-based claims
Establishes statutory standards and requirements for claims payment and dispute resolution for non-contracting hospital-based physicians, who provide emergency services in a hospital to enrollees of a health care service plan licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.
Vetoed

SB 1014 (Kuehl-D) Taxation: single-payer health care coverage tax
Imposes a payroll tax on employers and employees for the purpose of funding a single-payer health care system.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1026* (Calderon-D) Health insurance: tax credit
Authorizes a credit against those taxes, for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/07 and before 1/1/12, for a qualified health care provider, as defined, in an amount equal to the amount paid or incurred during the taxable year to provide health care to residents of the state whose health care was not covered by a health care service plan or health insurance.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1168 (Runner-R) Health care coverage: dependent children
Provides that a health plan or insurer may not terminate coverage for a dependent child who is over 18 years of age and enrolled at a secondary or postsecondary educational institution if the child takes a medically necessary leave of absence from school.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2008

SB 1198 (Kuehl-D) Health care coverage: durable medical equipment
Requires group health plans and insurers to offer coverage for durable medical equipment with annual and lifetime benefit maximums, and maximum out-of-pocket costs, that are not less than the maximums applied to other health care benefits.
Vetoed

SB 1300 (Corbett-D) Health care coverage: provider contracts
Prohibits a contract between a health care provider and a health plan from containing a provision that restricts the ability of the health plan to furnish information on the cost of procedures or health care quality information to plan enrollees.
(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1379* (Ducheny-D) Health care service programs
Requires fines and administrative penalties levied against health plans under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 to be placed in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund and used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for a physician loan repayment program and the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program, instead of being deposited in the State Managed Care Fund.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2008

SB 1387 (Padilla-D) Dental coverage: provider overpayments
Establishes specific requirements for overpayment notices sent by dental plans to dental providers.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2008

SB 1440 (Kuehl-D) Health care coverage: benefits
Requires health plans and health insurers to spend at least 85% of premiums on health care benefits, a requirement known as a medical loss ratio or MLR.
Vetoed

SB 1459 (Yee-D) Health care coverage: Cal-Health Act
Expands access to health insurance by reforming and consolidating administrative procedures of the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs under the California Health Care Program, which would be created by this bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1522 (Steinberg-D) Individual health care coverage: coverage choice categories
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care and the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance to jointly develop a system to categorize into five coverage choice categories health coverage sold to individuals, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1525 (Kuehl-D) Health care coverage: medical necessity determinations
Increases health plan and health insurer reporting of data related to requests for health services and medical necessity determinations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1553 (Lowenthal-D) Health care service plans: mental health services
Makes clarifying changes to requirements imposed on health plans licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care primarily related to the provision of mental health care and services.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 2008

SB 1563 (Perata-D) Pervasive developmental disorders
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to establish the Autism Workgroup of Equitable Health Insurance Coverage to examine coverage of services related to pervasive developmental disorders or autism, and to make recommendations on ensuring that health plans and insurance provide appropriate and equitable coverage for pervasive developmental disorders or autism.
Vetoed

SB 1593 (Alquist-D) Health care coverage: children's health initiatives
Requires initial enrollment in an expansion of Healthy Families or Medi-Cal programs to be limited to children receiving coverage through Children's Health Initiatives.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1603 (Calderon-D) Discount health care programs
Provides for the licensure and regulation of discount health care programs, as defined, under the Department of Managed Health Care.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1622 (Simitian-D) California Health Benefits Service Program
Establishes the California Health Benefits Service, within the Department of Health Care Services, for the purpose of expanding public health insurance coverage options.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1634 (Steinberg-D) Health care coverage: cleft palates
Requires specified health care service plans and health insurers to cover orthodontic services deemed necessary for medical reasons for cleft palate procedures, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 1669 (McClintock-R) Health care coverage: waivered conditions
Authorizes a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy covering one or two individuals to include a provision that excludes coverage for any length of time for a condition for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received from a licensed health practitioner during the 10 years immediately preceding the effective date of coverage.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1X (Perata-D) Health care reform
States the intent of the Legislature to enact comprehensive health care reform.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 2X (Perata-D) Health care reform
States the intent of the Legislature to enact comprehensive health care reform.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 3X (Hollingsworth-R) Health care coverage: health savings accounts
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care and the Insurance Commissioner to encourage the design of health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that conform to existing federal requirements for high deductible health plans used in conjunction with health savings accounts.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 4X (Dutton-R) Health insurance: employers
States the intent of the Legislature to provide incentives to employers who offer health insurance, flex-time work schedules, and other benefits agreed upon by employers and employees.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 5X (Cox-R) California Children and Families Program: funding
Eliminates from the California Children and Families Trust Fund the current required distribution of monies derived from the cigarette tax, and instead provides that those funds, with specified exceptions, shall be allocated and appropriated to the General Fund for appropriation by the Legislature to provide health care services and health care initiatives, including, but not limited to, the California Healthy Family Program.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SB 8X* (Aanestad-R) Medical care: income taxes
Allows, to a physician, a credit in an amount equal to 50% of the fair market value of uncompensated medical care provided to an eligible individual, as defined.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 10X* (Maldonado-R) Health savings account: tax deduction
Allows a tax deduction in connection with health savings accounts in conformity with federal law. In general, the deduction would be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by, or on behalf of, an eligible individual to a health savings account of that individual, as provided. Provides related conformity to federal law with respect to treatment of the account as a tax-exempt trust, the allowance of rollovers from the Archer Medical Savings Accounts to a health savings account, and penalties in connection therewith.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SB 11X* (Harman-R) Health savings account: tax credit
Authorizes a credit against specified taxes for each taxable year, beginning on or after 1/1/08 and before 1/1/14, in an amount equal to 15% of the amount paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the taxable year for qualified health insurance, as defined, for employees of the taxpayer. Requires the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on or before 3/1/13 on the effectiveness of the credit, as specified.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 16X (McClintock-R) Health insurance: out-of-state carriers
Allows a health carrier domiciled in another state to offer, sell, or renew a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy in this state without holding a license issued by the Department of Managed Health Care or a certificate of authority issued by the Insurance Commissioner. Exempts the carrier's plan contract or policy from requirements otherwise applicable to plans and insurers providing health care coverage, if the plan contract or policy complies with the domiciliary state's requirements, and the carrier is lawfully authorized to issue the plan or policy in that state and to transact business there.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SB 17X (Cogdill-R) Health care coverage: small-group market
Declares the intent of the Legislature to provide incentives to improve health and wellness as well as additional affordable health care coverage options by allowing health care service plans and insurers greater rate flexibility in the small-group market.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 18X (Cogdill-R) Health savings accounts: public employees
Requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to offer a high deductible health plan, as defined in the federal tax law, and a health savings account option to public employees and annuitants. Establishes the Public Employees' Health Savings Fund, a continuously appropriated trust fund within the State Treasury, for payment of qualified medical expenses of eligible employees and annuitants who elect to enroll in the high deductible health plan and participate in the health savings account option, and requires those employees and annuitants and their employers to make specified contributions to that fund.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 20X* (Runner-R) Medical professionals: tax credit
Allows a primary health care provider, as defined, a credit in an amount equal to 10% of the personal income tax, as specified.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 21X* (Cogdill-R) Medical professionals: tax credit
Authorizes a credit against personal income taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/08 in an amount equal to 20% of the tax imposed on a medical care professional who provides medical services in a rural area.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 23X* (Ashburn-R) Cafeteria plans: tax credit
Authorizes a credit against specified taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/07 and before 1/1/12 in an amount equal to 15% of the amount of administrative costs paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year in connection with establishing or administering a qualified cafeteria plan that provides for the payment of health insurance premiums of the taxpayer's employees, as defined. Requires the Franchise Tax Board to report to the chairs and vice chairs of specified committees regarding the utilization of that tax credit.
(Failed passage in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 25X (Cox-R) Health care coverage
Extends the duration, from 12/31/07 to 12/31/10, of a specified pilot program under which a health care service plan and a health insurer are required to offer a standard benefit plan.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 26X (McClintock-R) Insurance: multiple employer welfare arrangements
Allows an association, as defined, that satisfies specified criteria to apply to the Department of Insurance for a certificate of compliance for a self-funded or partially self-funded Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement, as defined, established by the association on or after 1/1/08.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SJR 31 (Wiggins-D) Commercial fishing health care coverage
Urges the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to enact the Commercial Fishing Health Care Coverage Act to address the growing health care crisis facing America's fishing men and women.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 1X (Battin-R) Federal health care mandate reimbursement
Memorializes the Congress and President of the United States to enact legislation that provides full reimbursement for the costs of providing federally mandated health care services to anyone, regardless of immigration status.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2 (Dymally-D) Health care coverage
Revises and restructures the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (MRMIP), administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, which provides subsidized individual health care coverage for medically uninsurable persons. Secures additional funding and coverage for MRMIP-eligible persons by requiring all health plans and health insurers (collectively carriers) selling individual coverage in the state to accept assignment of such persons or to support the costs of MRMIP through a per person fee on individual health plan contracts and policies. Enacts specified program changes related to eligibility, benefits and program administration.
Vetoed

AB 16 (Evans-D) Human papillomavirus vaccination
Requires health plans and health insurers that currently provide coverage for cervical cancer to also cover the human papillomavirus vaccination.
Vetoed

AB 30 (Evans-D) Health care coverage: inborn errors of metabolism
Requires every health care service plan contract, except a specialized health care service plan contract, issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in this state on and after 1/1/08 that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses to provide coverage for the testing and treatment of inborn errors of metabolism, under the terms and conditions of the plan contract.
Vetoed

AB 51 (Dymally-D) Gallegos-Rosenthal Patient Advocate Program
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care Office of the Patient Advocate to include information about the quality of care and access provided by Medicare prescription drug plans in the Department annual Healthcare Quality Report Card on HMOs and Medical Groups.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 54 (Dymally-D) Health care coverage: acupuncture
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide, rather than to offer, coverage for acupuncture under a group plan or policy.
Vetoed

AB 71* (Dymally-D) Employee health insurance: tax credit
Authorizes, for unspecified taxable years beginning on or after January 1 of a yet to be designated year, a credit against taxes to a qualified small employer, as defined, in an amount equal to 25% of the amount paid by the employer during the taxable year for qualified employee health insurance expenses, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 84* (Nakanishi-R) Health savings account: income tax
Allows eligible individuals to claim a deduction related to their contributions to health savings accounts (HSAs) in computing adjusted gross income. Excludes from the gross income of the employee any contributions to an HSA made by an employer on the employee's behalf. Includes HSAs as an approved option in a non-taxable cafeteria plan for employee benefits created by an employer. Allows a taxpayer to roll over the balance of an existing Archer medical savings account to an HSA, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08, and imposes a penalty for a disqualified distribution equal to 2 1/2% of the distribution amount, rather than 10%, as provided by federal law.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 85* (Nakanishi-R) Health savings account: income tax
Allows, beginning on or after 1/1/08, a tax credit equal to 15% of the cost of health insurance. Allows the credit against the net tax based on the amount paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer for qualified health insurance for employees that perform services in California and pay income tax to California. Provides that the credit allowed is in lieu of any deduction otherwise available to the taxpayer with respect to the expenses for which the credit is claimed. Provides for an unlimited carryforward of the credit, and provides that a qualified taxpayer is only eligible for the credit for the first year during which the credit is claimed and for each of the following two years.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 142* (Plescia-R) Health savings accounts: income tax
Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08, a deduction in connection with health savings accounts in conformity with federal law. Provides, in general, the deduction will be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by or on behalf of an eligible individual, as defined, to a health savings account of that individual, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 245* (DeVore-R) Health savings account
Conforms to federal tax law with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs) for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/07. Allows eligible individuals to claim a deduction related to their contributions to HSAs in computing adjusted gross income, and excludes from the gross income of the employee any contributions to an HSA made by an employer on the employee's behalf. Includes HSAs as part of approved elements of a nontaxable cafeteria plan for employee benefits created by an employer, allows a taxpayer to roll over the balance of an existing Archer medical savings account to an HSA for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/07, and imposes a penalty for a disqualified distribution equal to 2 1/2% of the distribution amount, rather than 10% as provided by federal law.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 368 (Carter-D) Health insurance: hearing aids
Requires health care service plans and health insurers, on or after 1/1/09, to offer, at minimal cost, coverage up to $1,000 for hearing aids, as defined, to all enrollees, subscribers, and insureds under 18 years of age. Provides that the requirement to provide this coverage would not apply to certain types of insurance.
Vetoed

AB 516 (Swanson-D) Health care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to report to the Legislature, by 1/1/09, on how to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to improve the connection between uninsured residents and health care services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 552 (Hernandez-D) Health insurance: county employees
Provides that if a member of a retirement system, subject to that law, retires and receives a retirement benefit based upon years of service, and that member participates in an employer group health plan for at least 10 years, the member may elect health care plan coverage at a rate that does not exceed 102% of the active employee rate for that health care plan coverage. Permits a county board of supervisors, by resolution adopted by majority vote, to provide that health care plan coverage to a member of a county retirement system who participates in an employer group health plan for less than 10 years, as specified. Provides that these provisions do not preclude a member who retires based upon years of service from participating in, or preclude an employer from providing, alternate or supplemental Medicare coverage, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 562 (Walters-R) Health care coverage: catastrophic loss
Authorizes a health care service plan and a health insurer to offer and issue a group or individual plan contract or policy for catastrophic losses that contains a high deductible.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 770 (Hernandez-D) Health care: agricultural employees
Enacts the Agricultural Employer and Employees Health Care Coverage Act requiring the California Research Bureau to conduct a comprehensive study of the availability of health care coverage to agricultural employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 799 (Smyth-R) Health insurance: small employers
Provides that requirements imposed on health care service plans and health insurers do not apply to a program of services and incentives offered to a small employer, separate and apart from a contract or policy for health care benefits designed to promote wellness and healthy employees.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 841 (Portantino-D) Health care coverage: mammographies
Provides that individual or group policies of health insurance or self-insured employee welfare benefit plans issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on and after 7/1/09, shall be deemed to provide coverage for mammographies for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral of a participating nurse practitioner, participating certified nurse-midwife, or participating physician, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 953 (Krekorian-D) Public employees' health benefits
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration, when entering into any contract for vision care for state employees, to extend that coverage to a parent or sibling of an employee.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 989* (Garrick-R) Health savings account: taxation
Allows a credit equal to 100% of the contributions made to a Health Savings Account.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1040* (Duvall-R) Health care: income tax
Allows a personal income tax deduction for purposes of computing a taxpayer's adjusted gross income, for the costs of medical care.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1057 (Beall-D) Adult Health Coverage Expansion Program
Revises the Adult Health Coverage Expansion Program in Santa Clara County to allow the Program to provide health care coverage products to the spouses, domestic partners, and eligible children of program enrollees.
Vetoed

AB 1072 (Gaines-R) Health care coverage: California Health Insurance Exchange
Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to establish the California Health Insurance Exchange for the purpose of allowing employers to transmit health insurance premium payments obtained through an employee benefits cafeteria plan established pursuant to federal tax law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1150 (Lieu-D) Health care coverage: underwriting practices
Prohibits health care service plans (health plans) and disability insurers selling health insurance (health insurers) from setting performance goals, quotas and compensation based on, or related in any way to, the number of persons, contracts, policies, or certificates for health insurance rescinded, canceled, or limited, or the resulting cost savings to the health plan or insurer.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2088

AB 1155 (Huffman-D) Health care service plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, upon a final determination that a health plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider in violation of the Knox-Keene prohibition on an unfair payment pattern, to require the plan to pay the provider not less than the amount owed plus interest as well as pay an administrative penalty to the Managed Care Fund not less than the amount owed the provider plus interest.
Vetoed

AB 1183* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Budget Trailer Bill
Enacts the 2008 Health Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, makes the following changes to the Healthy Families Program to implement the 2008 Budget: (1) Increases by 5%, the rates paid to health, dental, and vision plans participating in the Healthy Families Program as directed by the Governor, (2) Increases the premiums paid by low-income families for their children's enrollment into the program, starting the first day of the fifth month following enactment of the Budget Act of 2008, (3) Enacts a $1,500 annual computation on the dental benefits provided under the program starting the first day of the fifth month following enactment of the budget, and (4) Eliminates tinted lenses and photochromatic lenses, unless otherwise deemed medically necessary, from the Healthy Families vision benefit.
Chapter 758, Statutes of 2008

AB 1188 (Coto-D) Multiple employer welfare arrangements: investments
Authorizes a self-funded or partially self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangement to use the excess assets of the arrangement to purchase an office building or buildings that are used for its principal operations and business, as specified.
Chapter 428, Statutes of 2008

AB 1203 (Salas-D) Health care service plans: noncontracting hospitals
Establishes uniform requirements governing communications between health plans and non-contracting hospitals related to post-stabilization care following an emergency, and prohibits a non-contracting hospital from billing a patient who is a health plan enrollee for post-stabilization services, except as specified.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2008

AB 1214 (Emmerson-R) Health insurance: waiver
Allows a health care service plan contract and a health insurance policy to be without specified benefits if those benefits have been waived by the policyholder or contractholder. Requires a disclosure form regarding the waivers.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1377 (Nakanishi-R) Employee health benefits: health savings accounts
Requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to offer a high deductible health plan, as defined in the federal tax law, and a health savings account option to public employees and annuitants, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1378 (Nakanishi-R) California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program
Extends for six months, until 7/1/08, the Guaranteed Issue Pilot which provides health insurance coverage to medically uninsurable individuals who have exhausted their 36 months of eligibility for the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program, and tightens eligibility for the Program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1461 (Krekorian-D) Health insurance: liability: alcohol and drug abuse
Prohibits a health insurance policy from including a provision that limits an insurer's liability for any loss sustained by the insured while intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance, unless the substance was administered on the advice of a physician.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2008

AB 1554 (Jones-D) Health care coverage: rate approval
Requires health care service plans licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) and health insurers certificated by the Department of Insurance (DOI), effective 1/1/10, to submit a rate application for approval by the respective regulator for any increase in the rate charged to a subscriber or insured, as specified. Imposes on DMHC and DOI specific rate approval criteria, timelines, and hearing and notice requirements.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 1572 (DeVore-R) Health care service plans: conversion
Requires a health plan intending to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status to submit a conversion proposal to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care as part of the process already in law that requires the department's approval for the conversion. Requires at least 90% of the money expended annually by a charitable organization receiving set-aside funds as required in a health plan conversion to be spent on health care services for citizens who reside in California and who are not receiving health care services through a local, state, or federal program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1607 (Tran-R) Health care coverage: guaranteed associations
Deletes the current requirements for a guaranteed association to have been in active existence and to have included health care coverage as a membership benefit for at least five years prior to 1/1/92. Reduces the required number of persons covered by health coverage provided through the guaranteed association from 1,000 to 100. Authorizes a health care service plan to also offer to a small employer a health savings account option with a high deductible plan.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1619 (Benoit-R) Health insurer licensing
Allows any insurer admitted to transact health insurance or workers' compensation insurance or a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act to make written application to the Insurance Commissioner for a license to offer a single policy that provides health care services and workers' compensation benefits.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1644 (Niello-R) Out-of-state carriers
Allows a carrier domiciled in another state to offer, sell, or renew in this state an essential health benefit plan meeting certain unspecified requirements, without holding a license issued by the Department of Managed Health Care or a certificate of authority issued by the Insurance Commissioner, and exempts the essential health benefit plan from requirements otherwise applicable to plans and insurance policies providing health care coverage in this state.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1692 (Villines-R) Healthy Families Advisory Panel
Requires a member of the Healthy Families Advisory Panel to be a practicing physician and surgeon who is board certified in pediatrics.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1774 (Lieber-D) Health care coverage: gynecological cancer screening tests
Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for tests for the screening and diagnosis of gynecological cancers when ordered by specified providers and when consistent with national professional standard guidelines.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1887 (Beall-D) Health care coverage: mental health services
Requires health plans and health insurers to cover the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of a mental illness, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV, of a person of any age, including a child, not limited to coverage for severe mental illness as in existing law.
Vetoed

AB 1894 (Krekorian-D) Health care coverage: HIV testing
Requires, on or after 1/1/09, health care service plans and health insurers to provide coverage for human immunodeficiency virus testing, regardless of whether the testing is related to a primary diagnosis.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2008

AB 1945 (De La Torre-D) Individual health care coverage
Imposes specific requirements and standards on health care service plans licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers subject to regulation by the Department of Insurance, (collectively carriers) related to the application forms, medical underwriting and notice and disclosure of rights and responsibilities for individual, non-group health plan contracts and health insurance policies, including the establishment of an independent external review process related to a carrier's decision to cancel or rescind an individual's health care coverage.
Vetoed

AB 1962 (De La Torre-D) Health care coverage: maternity services
Requires every individual or group policy of health insurance, as specified, to provide coverage for maternity services, as defined. Exempts specified limited coverage, short term, and supplemental health insurance products from this requirement.
Vetoed

AB 2146 (Feuer-D) Health care providers: billing
Prohibits a health care provider from charging a patient or third-party payer for a hospital-acquired condition.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2158 (Soto-D) State employees' health benefits: bloodborne diseases
Provides that if a dependent or former dependent of a correctional officer at a state prison contracts a blood-borne infectious disease from the employee, as specified, he/she may be compensated by the state for health care costs associated with the disease.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2008

AB 2174 (Laird-D) Amino acid-based elemental formulas
Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide coverage for the use of amino acid based elemental formulas for the diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders and short bowel syndrome when the prescribing physician has issued a written order stating that the amino acid based elemental formula is medically necessary.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2183 (Aghazarian-R) Supplemental health insurance
Provides that the term "supplemental health insurance policy" means a policy of insurance for health benefits that is not marketed or sold as a substitute for major medical expense health insurance or a health care service plan contract, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2220 (Jones-D) Health care service plans
Allows parties to a contract negotiation between emergency room physicians and health care service plans or their contracting risk-bearing organization to, on a one-time basis per contract negotiation, invoke a mandatory mediation process to assist in resolving any remaining issues in the contract negotiations, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 2234 (Portantino-D) Health care coverage: breast cancer screening and diagnosis
Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for screening and tests to diagnose breast cancer in accordance with national guidelines, professional standards, and patient-specific risk.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2242 (De Leon-D) Health care service plans: licensure requirements
Exempts from licensure a health care service plan operated by a trust governed by union-appointed trustees, as defined, that meets the above requirements, and exempts such a plan from the Insurance Code.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2292* (Garrick-R) Health savings accounts: income tax
Conforms state tax law to federal tax law with respect to health savings accounts for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2549 (Hayashi-D) Health care coverage: rescission
Prohibits a health care plan or health insurer from rescinding an individual health care plan contract or individual health insurance policy for any reason after 18 months following the issuance of the contract or policy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2556* (Duvall-R) Health insurance: income tax deduction
Allows a tax deduction for health insurance.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2569 (De Leon-D) Health care coverage: rescission
Requires health plans and health insurers to offer new coverage, or continue existing coverage, for individuals covered in a contract or policy where the coverage was rescinded, as specified. Establishes a duty for agents and brokers selling individual health coverage products to assist applicants in providing answers to health questions accurately and completely, as specified.
Chapter 604, Statutes of 2008

AB 2589 (Solorio-D) Health care coverage: public agencies
Requires a health care service plan or health insurer to annually disclose, to the governing board of a public agency that is a group subscriber or group policyholder, the name and address of, and amount paid to, any agent, broker, or individual to whom the health plan or health insurer paid fees or commission, and requires health and service plans to include the name, address, and amounts paid to specific agents, brokers, or individuals involved in transactions with the public agency.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2008

AB 2653 (Garcia-R) Hospital access pass
Authorizes a health plan participating in the Healthy Families Program or the Medi-Cal program to request a hospital access pass from the respective administering agency if the health plan is unable to reach an agreement with a hospital in order to meet the geographic accessibility standard.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2805 (Ma-D) Health care coverage: payment for benefits
Requires health care service plans (health plans) and disability insurers selling health insurance (health insurers) to permit enrollees to assign benefits directly to health care providers, to pay providers directly, respectively, for health care services in the same way that existing law requires each benefits be assigned or paid directly to providers of beneficiaries of the Medi-Cal program.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2839 (Huffman-D) Health Care Providers' Bill of Rights
Prohibits health plans and health insurers from requiring a provider, consultant, or attorney to execute an unfair or unreasonable agreement as a condition of entering into contract negotiations. Authorizes the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to suspend or revoke a plan or insurer's license and assess related administrative penalties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2842 (Berg-D) Health insurance agents: solicitation
Makes it an unfair business practice to sell health care coverage using cold lead advertising or using an appointment to discuss a Medicare product in order to sell other coverage.
Chapter 744, Statutes of 2008

AB 2847 (Krekorian-D) Health care coverage
Modifies health care litigation and independent medical review processes with respect to medical necessity determinations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2910 (Huffman-D) Health care service plans
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care to meet specified notice, consultation, and public discussion requirements when taking action to waive the requirement of a rule or form to exempt persons from the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 or to exempt plan contracts from the requirement to provide subscribers and enrollees with basic health care services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 3027 (De Leon-D) Health care coverage: disclosures: foreign languages
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to develop a uniform notice in all Medi-Cal threshold languages that provides specified information regarding language assistance services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1X (Nunez-D) Health care reform
Requires all California residents to carry a minimum level of health insurance coverage for themselves as well as for their dependents. Establishes a state purchasing pool through which qualifying individuals would be allowed to obtain subsidized or unsubsidized health care coverage. Expands eligibility for the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs, and increases Medi-Cal provider rates for hospitals and physician services.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

AB 2X (Nunez-D) Health care reform
Requires all California residents, as defined, to obtain minimum health care coverage, as defined, and requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, subject to an appropriation of funds therefore, to establish methods to inform individuals of that requirement and to enforce the requirement by entering into an agreement with the Franchise Tax Board and through other specified means.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 3X (Dymally-D) Health care coverage
Makes various changes regarding health care coverage and the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program. Enacts reform legislation that ensures coverage for all individuals regardless of their medical history, which may include, among other things, reform of the private individual health insurance market and full funding for the Program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 5X* (Nakanishi-R) Health savings account: tax credit
Authorizes a credit for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/08 and before 1/1/13 in an amount equal to 15% of the amount paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified health insurance for specified employees of the taxpayer. Requires the Franchise Tax Board and the Legislative Analyst to report on the usage and effectiveness of the credit.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 7X (Nakanishi-R) California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program: eligibility
Changes the eligibility criteria for the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program by requiring rejection by at least two private health plans.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 8X (Villines-R) Health insurance reform
Proposes multiple strategies to address health care costs ad access, including: tax incentives and government programs to promote and facilitate consumer-directed health care and employer-sponsored insurance; allowing the sale of out-of-state health insurance policies not subject to any California law or regulation; increasing Medi-Cal provider reimbursement rates and creating an income tax credit for physicians who provide unreimbursed care for the uninsured; establishing a mechanism for financial aid for training physician assistants; and, requiring benefits and assets from foundation conversions to support direct medical care.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 31 (Jones-D) Medicare Part D
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to make changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program that would improve coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2008

AJR 54 (Laird-D) State Children's Health Insurance Program
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to rescind the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services directive of 8/17/07, which restricts eligibility for the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2008

AJR 58 (Horton-R) School Medicaid services
Expresses the Legislature's opposition to federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services regulations that eliminate reimbursement for Medicaid School-Based Services programs (the local educational agency billing option and the Medi-Cal Administrative Activities program in California) and resolves that California school districts continue to take full advantage of the Medicaid School-Based Services programs to improve health access and health outcomes, and to decrease the health disparities between the students of California.
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2008

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SB 133 (Aanestad-R) Title insurance: title solicitors
Requires persons who market, negotiate, or sell title insurance to register with the Insurance Commissioner and become subject to enforcement actions.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2008

SB 195 (Calderon-D) Construction projects: wrap-up insurance: disclosures
Requires the owner, developer, or general contractor of a construction project who proposes or obtains a wrap-up insurance policy to provide to each subcontractor who is covered under the wrap-up insurance policy, specified disclosures and documents regarding that policy.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 229 (Margett-R) Vehicles: large or heavy loads
Requires a local authority to use certain specified criteria in determining whether extra insurance or other financial security is required by a vehicle with an unusually large or heavy load that poses a substantial risk to public facilities.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 536 (Simitian-D) Insurance Commissioner: Political Reform Act of 1974
Enacts the Insurance Commissioner Election Accountability Act of 2007 which authorizes eligible Insurance Commissioner candidates, as defined, to obtain public financing from a fund made up of fees collected from insurers, reimbursements, and interest according to specified procedures and requirements, provided that certain thresholds of public support are shown.
(Died in Senate Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 573 (Scott-D) Annuity sales: seniors
Provides that a life insurer or agent must have reasonable grounds for believing that a sale of an annuity to a senior consumer is suitable to that senior based on the facts disclosed by the senior before making a recommendation to the senior consumer, defines "recommendation" as advice to a senior consumer that results in a purchase or exchange of an annuity in accordance with that advice, and specifies that "recommendation" includes all communication, including solicitations, between an insurer or agent and a senior consumer. Requires the insurer to decline to issue, or to offer to rescind, the annuity if it determines that the annuity is not suitable for the senior consumer.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

SB 711 (Runner-R) Insurance: rate filings
Provides that the adequacy or inadequacy of each insurer's rates shall be determined by its own experience, as specified, and not by the experience of its affiliates.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

SB 875 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Insurance premiums
Provides that an installment fee is not a premium.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 975 (Calderon-D) Insurance: broker-agents
Provides that insurers may provide specified sales and related materials to broker-agents, and that neither an insurer nor a broker-agent need accept or submit business to each other, unless otherwise mandated by law.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

SB 1216 (Scott-D) Insurance: long-term care
Requires long-term care insurers to pay interest on accepted claims, accepted on or after 12/1/08, that are not paid within timeframes required by state regulations.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2008

SB 1224 (Machado-D) Insurance: viatical and life settlement contracts
Enacts the Life Settlement Consumer Protection Act of 2008. Expands the definition of security to include a fractional or proportional interest in a life insurance policy benefit, including a viatical settlement contact.
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 1279 (Maldonado-R) Insurance: electronic records
Deletes the requirement that insurer statements be filed with the Department of Insurance in triplicate, deletes the requirement that the Insurance Commissioner certify and provide copies of surety and bail agent information to county clerks, as specified, and requires the Insurance Commissioner to publish and maintain records in electronic form and handle transactions electronically, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by law.
Chapter 351, Statutes of 2008

SB 1434 (Correa-D) Insurance: interstate compact
Enacts the Interstate Insurance Regulation Compact (Interstate Compact or Compact) to develop uniform standards for life insurance, annuities, disability insurance and long term care insurance product lines that are binding on member states.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

SB 1467 (Machado-D) Insurance: guarantee fund
Requires all meetings of the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) board of governors and its investment and audit committee to be open to the public, with exceptions for closed meetings, as specified. Requires a 10-day public notice of those open meetings via CIGA's Internet web site or through publication in a newspaper of general circulation in California. Requires CIGA to provide periodic reports to the Insurance Commissioner specifying the subjects discussed in each closed session. Explicitly permits the Insurance Commissioner or a designated representative to attend all meetings of the CIGA governing board or its audit and investment committee, including closed sessions.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2008

SB 1543 (Machado-D) Insurance: life settlement investments and contracts
Requires the licensing of persons who transact life settlement contracts, makes it unlawful to issue or market the purchase of a new life insurance policy for the purpose of settling the policy, generally prohibits individuals from entering into a life settlement during the initial two years of a policy, authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to disapprove life settlement forms, requires specified disclosures to consumers including a notice of possible alternatives to life settlements, regulates marketing practices, and prohibits predatory practices such as false and misleading statements.
Vetoed

SB 1693 (Cox-R) Foreign electric cooperative reciprocals
Establishes a new act in the Insurance Code to govern the regulation of foreign electric cooperative reciprocals, as defined. Establishes various administrative procedures to be complied with in order to operate as a foreign electric cooperative reciprocal. Provides that a foreign reciprocal insurer being regulated in its state of domicile and owned and directed by its members shall not be subject to the same laws as a commercial insurance company that provides insurance to the general public, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1737 (Machado-D) Real estate: brokers and salespersons
Allows the Department of Real Estate to prohibit an unlicensed person or real estate salesperson or broker from participating in any business activity relating to real estate for up to 36 months for violating the law or regulations relating to real estate, prohibits an individual who is barred from providing an opinion on the value of a residential property to a lien holder of the property from selling, buying, renting, or offers to sell, buy, or rent the property for 12 months following the opinion, and requires prompt disclosure to all parties to the sale of a property when an agent acts as a mortgage broker, or when a mortgage broker acts as an agent.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2008

AB 267 (Charles Calderon-D) Annuity sales: seniors
Requires the insurance producer agent or insurer when making a recommendation to a senior consumer, as defined, for the purchase or exchange of an annuity to have reasonable grounds for believing that the recommendation is suitable for the senior based on the facts disclosed by the senior relating to his/her financial situation and needs. Provides that before the purchase or exchange of an annuity, that the insurance producer or insurer shall make reasonable efforts to obtain specified information to assist in making recommendations to the senior consumer. Provides that if a senior consumer refuses or fails to provide all specified relevant information, the insurance producer or insurer recommendation must be reasonable under all circumstances that were known at the time.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 393* (Coto-D) Mortgage insurance
Conforms California personal income tax law to recent federal changes that permit homeowners to take a one-time itemized deduction for mortgage insurance premiums paid or accrued in 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 792* (Garcia-R) Construction liability insurance
Establishes the Construction Liability Reform Pilot Program.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1159 (Coto-D) Insurance: California Earthquake Authority
Creates a new assessment authority for the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) to replace an assessment authority that is sunsetting, clarifies the power of the CEA Board of Directors to impose conditions on insurance companies applying to become participating insurers, and redefines the term "available capital" for purposes of the CEA law.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1271 (Carter-D) Life insurance: disclosures relating to replacement coverage
Requires agents selling life insurance or annuities to complete a contract comparison summary, modifies a disclosure form, and requires insurers to confirm all representations in contract comparison summaries.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1389* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, requires the Department of Insurance's annual report to the Legislature to provide additional information related to the Conservation and Liquidation Office, including any insolvencies not closed within 10 years of a court-ordered liquidation.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008

AB 1565 (Lieber-D) Insurance policies: nonprofit organizations
Provides that a property insurance policy covering a place of religious observance or practice cannot be cancelled or nonrenewed, nor can the premium be increased, based on a claim occurring as a result of any crime committed against the insured property.
Vetoed

AB 1653 (Horton-R) Insurance Commissioner: election
Makes Insurance Commissioner a non-partisan office.
(Failed passage in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1699* (La Malfa-R) Insurance: surplus line brokers' fees
Restructures the licensing fees charged for licenses to act as a surplus lines broker.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2008

AB 1752 (Charles Calderon-D) California Earthquake Authority: study: insurance
Requires the California Earthquake Authority to conduct a study, within existing resources, to determine the impact of the State of California serving as the sole reinsurer of the Authority and to report findings to the Legislature by 1/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1906 (Salas-D) Insurance: identity theft
Adds identify theft to the 21 existing classes of insurance that may be transacted in California, provides that identity theft insurance includes insurance against costs associated with reestablishing credit, reclaiming financial identity, and communicating with banks, credit agencies, and other financial institutions, as specified, and sets forth related legislative findings and declarations regarding identity theft.
Vetoed

AB 1910 (Coto-D) Insurance: community development investments
Requires major insurance companies to develop a policy on community development investments that expresses their goal for these investments, and to file these policy statements with the Insurance Commissioner.
Vetoed

AB 2044 (Duvall-R) Insurance licensees
Establishes a "citation and fine" program for minor violations of the Insurance Code, clarifies several provisions of law relating to continuing education of agents and brokers, and makes a number of minor amendments to the laws governing agents and brokers.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2008

AB 2137 (Saldana-D) Insurance: rescission of long-term care contracts
Requires insurers to maintain a record of all policy rescissions involving long-term care contracts and furnish specified data to the Insurance Commissioner.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2008

AB 2143 (De Leon-D) Insurance: fraud assessment fees
Extends the sunset date for funding of the Department of Insurance's Fraud Division and the Organized Automobile Fraud Activity Interdiction.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2008

AB 2203 (De Leon-D) Insurance: foreign investments
Increases the limit on the amount of foreign investments that California-domiciled insurance companies may make from 4% to 20% of excess funds, prohibits a domestic insurer from acquiring, directly or indirectly, an investment of more than 3% of its admitted assets in specified investments held by a single person, or more than 5% in the voting securities of a depository institution, as specified.
Chapter 129, Statutes of 2008

AB 2268 (Fuentes-D) Insurance: rating organizations
Requires an insurance rating organization to waive a copyright claim on data or reports filed with the Insurance Commissioner as a condition of obtaining or retaining a state license.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2464 (Duvall-R) Annuity sales: disclosure
Seeks to implement the National Association of Insurance Commissioner's model regulations governing annuity sales, including the provision of a disclosure document to a consumer that outlines features of the annuity contract, as well as a buyer's guide containing general information about annuities.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2465 (Duvall-R) Insurance: replacement of life and annuity policies
Exempts, from enhanced disclosure requirements, specified conversions of term life insurance to another type of life insurance offered by the same company.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2008

AB 2654 (Laird-D) Discrimination
Updates various provisions in different codes dealing with discrimination in contracting, insurance, workers compensation, court-appointed child advocacy, and prepaid health plans to ensure that proper reference is made to the classes protected under the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Section 51 of the Civil Code), or to Section 11135 of the Government Code which prohibits discrimination in state-funded programs and activities based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, sex (including gender identity), marital status, and sexual orientation), or to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (Section 12926.1 of the Government Code).
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2008

AB 2731 (Emmerson-R) Insurance: qualified custodian
Expands the definition of qualified custodian for the purposes of regulating California's domestic insurers.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2008

AB 2956 (Coto-D) Insurance: agents and brokers
Clarifies the law that distinguishes when an insurance producer (a term of art that refers to both agents and brokers who sell insurance) is acting as an agent or as a broker.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2008

AB 3054 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance
Makes a number of technical, corrective and clarifying amendments to the Insurance Code and the Vehicle Code.
Vetoed

AB 3055 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance: Guarantee Association
Permits the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) to issue bonds for an additional two years beyond the current sunset date, but does not change the total amount of bonds that CIGA could issue. Allows CIGA to recover excess payments on a covered claim through arbitration or an administrative hearing, as specified, and makes other technical and clarifying changes.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2008

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